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Pinnidae

10 species · Animals

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Animalia › Mollusca › Bivalvia › Ostreida › Pinnidae

Pinna nobilis Linnaeus, 1758

Pinna nobilis is an endemic Mediterranean bivalve with symbiotic crustaceans and historically used byssus threads.

Pinna carnea Gmelin, 1791

Pinna carnea, the amber pen shell, is a hermaphroditic sessile bivalve found in coastal western Atlantic seagrass and sandy habitats.

Pinna rudis Linnaeus, 1758

Pinna rudis, the rough pen shell, is a bivalve species found across Atlantic, Mediterranean, Black and Caribbean waters that lives in rocky habitats.

Pinna bicolor Gmelin, 1791

Pinna bicolor, commonly called razorfish or razor clam, is a large tropical Indo-Pacific marine bivalve that is ecologically important as food and habitat for other organisms.

Atrina rigida (Lightfoot), 1786

Atrina rigida, the rigid pen shell, is a spiny triangular bivalve found in western Atlantic and southern Indian coastal waters.

Atrina serrata (G.B.Sowerby I, 1825)

Atrina serrata (saw-toothed pen shell) is a pinnid bivalve found along the North American Atlantic coast from North Carolina to Texas and the West Indies.

Atrina seminuda (Lamarck, 1819)

Atrina seminuda is a large bivalve mollusk found along the western Atlantic coast from the US to Argentina.

Atrina zelandica (Gray, 1835)

Atrina zelandica is the largest bivalve native to New Zealand, a large marine bivalve with distinct physical traits and documented population decline in the Rangitoto Channel.